Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere

Critic's Take

Hi, everyone. Eathony Chiptano here, and on Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere the best tracks are immediately clear — the three-part “The Stargate” suite, especially “The Stargate [Tablet I]” and “The Stargate [Tablet III]”. They combine dissonant spacey prog, epic synth and crushing death metal into cinematic, cohesive pieces. The reviewer praises the first half as “pretty much perfection,” while noting the second half, the “The Message” tablets, have strong moments amid occasional lulls.

Key Points

• The Stargate suite is the album's high point because of its cinematic flow, synth and guitar solos, and crushing death metal climaxes.
• Absolute Elsewhere's core strengths are its ambitious prog-death fusion, thematic cohesion, and detailed arrangements that make it feel cinematic.

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Critic's Take

In a vivid, excitable voice that never loses sight of detail, Blood Incantation's Absolute Elsewhere casts its lot with grandeur and cosmic risk, and the best tracks - the two side-long pieces “The Stargate” and “The Message” - make that leap feel justified. The reviewer delights in the album's collision of Human-era Death riffing, dub and Berlin school electronics when describing “The Stargate”, and praises “The Message” for its shoegazey chords, jazz-fusion bass and Pink Floyd-tinged bliss. Repeated listens, they argue, reveal tighter songwriting and a cohesive logic that elevates these two sprawling pieces into the year's most ambitious death metal statement.

Key Points

• The Message stands out for its sumptuous chords, jazz-fusion bass and Pink Floyd-like expanses, making it the album's emotional core.
• Absolute Elsewhere's core strength is its seamless fusion of death metal, prog and ambient elements into cohesive, sprawling compositions.

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Critic's Take

In his ecstatic, detail-rich way, Sam Goldner celebrates Blood Incantation and Absolute Elsewhere as a prog-death summit where the best tracks - “The Stargate [Tablet II]” and “The Message [Tablet I]” - find hypnotic focus amid cosmic mayhem. He writes with amused reverence for their nerdy impulses, mapping krautrock and Tangerine Dream synths onto brutal tech-death passages and calling out moments of genuine playfulness. The review frames the album’s top songs as sprawling, 20-minute odysseys that balance pastoral splendor with profane madness, explaining why listeners searching for the best songs on Absolute Elsewhere will keep returning to those standout Tablets.

Key Points

• The Stargate [Tablet II] is best for its dramatic synth-to-stomp curtain pull and heightened intensity.
• The album’s core strengths are its kosmische synth textures, prog ambition, playful theatrics, and sustained zoneage.

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Critic's Take

It’s been brilliant watching the widening of Blood Incantation’s cosmic horizons on Absolute Elsewhere, which reads like a 1970s prog album with death metal bits. The review singles out the multi-part Tablets across The Stargate and The Message as the best tracks for how they flow together as gigantic pieces, with Tablet II’s second movement compared to Pink Floyd at their most cosmic and sections that do "Morbid Angel -styled" death metal better than recent Morbid Angel. Synths and a guest turn from Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning are highlighted as key elements that elevate the best songs on Absolute Elsewhere, particularly the space-dusted moments on “The Stargate [Tablet II]” and the prog sweep of the multi-part suites. Overall the reviewer praises the album’s ambition and execution while noting it is essentially prog and death metal fused with genuine synth seriousness.

Key Points

• The Stargate [Tablet II] is the best due to its Pink Floyd-like second movement and cosmic synth flourishes.
• The album’s core strengths are its fusion of 1970s prog scope with death metal aggression and serious synth integration.

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Critic's Take

In his ecstatic review David Weaver insists that Blood Incantation's Absolute Elsewhere is a triumphant, adventurous record where the best tracks shine as sprawling voyages. He highlights the opening suite “The Stargate” as a 20-minute salvo that moves from dissonant symphonics into vicious, violent storms of guitars and drums, and praises the second suite “The Message” as a breathtaking, playful voyage through myriad influences. Weaver's tone is celebratory and precise, arguing that the record's mix of 70s prog, Tangerine Dream atmospherics and brutal death metal makes these best songs essential listening. The result reads like a soundtrack to a Herzog-style sci-fi epic, and those searching for the best songs on Absolute Elsewhere will find them in the sprawling ambition of “The Stargate” and “The Message”.

Key Points

• The best song(s) are the sprawling suites “The Stargate” and “The Message” for their ambitious fusion of prog atmosphere and brutal death metal.
• The album’s core strengths are adventurous genre fusion, confident experimentation, and a palpable sense of joy and wonder.

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Critic's Take

From the opening portal of Absolute Elsewhere it is obvious that Blood Incantation have swung for the fences, and the clear best tracks are the two suite-length epics “The Stargate” and “The Message”. The Stargate feels like a career-spanning condensation of their sound - riff-heavy, krautrock-sprinkled and punctuated by that dub break - and is presented as nearly flawless by the reviewers. The Message is where the prog influences truly bloom, a B-side communique that nudges the band into greener prog pastures even as it retains ferocious death metal moments. Both tracks reward multiple listens, and together they make the strongest case for why fans should call this the best Blood Incantation record to date.

Key Points

• “The Stargate” is best for condensing Blood Incantation’s career into a nearly flawless, multi-textured epic.
• The album’s core strength is its fearless melding of prog and death metal, yielding bold experimentation and strong compositional craft.

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Critic's Take

Blood Incantation's Absolute Elsewhere reads like a widescreen, mind-bending experiment in which the best tracks are the two sprawling suites themselves - “The Stargate” and “The Message”. Lawson praises “The Stargate” for its seamless transitions from visceral death metal into languid, 70s dream rock and mischievous embellishments, making it one of the best tracks on Absolute Elsewhere. He calls “The Message” even more impressive, noting its circuitous route through post-metal mirages, Pink Floydian serenity and a somnambulant folk passage that erupts into epic metal splendour, which marks it as the album's high point. The review frames both songs as the best tracks on Absolute Elsewhere because they turn extreme metal into one thread of a kaleidoscopic tapestry, delivering a majestic, immersive album experience.

Key Points

• The Message is singled out as the album's high point for its adventurous, prog-infused passages and dramatic eruptions into metal splendour.
• Absolute Elsewhere's core strength is its seamless fusion of death metal brutality with 70s progressive, psychedelic and ambient textures to create an immersive, album-length voyage.

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Critic's Take

As one of the most discussed names in modern death metal, Blood Incantation arrive with Absolute Elsewhere, a monumental work that makes the best tracks - particularly “The Stargate [Tablet III]” and “The Message [Tablet I]” - feel like revelations. The reviewer's voice revels in the album's chiaroscuro tension, noting immaculate flow and pristine ideas that turn brutal passages into sublime moments. There is confident praise for synth collaborations and prog detours, which the writer treats as natural evolutions rather than distractions. Ultimately the narrative positions these standout songs as the clearest evidence that the band has raised the bar for extreme music.

Key Points

• “The Stargate [Tablet III]” is best for its top-notch riffing, magnificent solos and ultra-heavy ending.
• The album's core strengths are its seamless blend of brutal death metal with 70s prog, synth atmospherics, and immaculate flow.

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